“I think just like anything, when you’re on defense, it’s a want and a need. You don’t have to be the most skilled person. You don’t have to if you really want to defend. And you try to collectively make stops, and you bring them into your organization, it gives the person next to you a kind of energy. When I see him play that hard, and I see him play that hard, it kind of festers, and that’s something we hope to build on. We hang our hat on our toughness and our defense, because the ball doesn’t always go in and little by little the ball starts going in from three. But again, our identity is not on the attacking side – Cooley on the team’s identity
“We asked them to keep their heads up and keep them locked into the game, just knowing we had their back. We asked them to defend physically, and sometimes, sometimes a little too physical, and they got called for the foul, so we just had to play better defense without making mistakes. But we let them know they defended well, and we got their support.” -Malik Mack
“It was an energizer, I think [Isaiah Abraham] didn’t realize how impactful that piece was. You know, outside defense helped your brother, and it energized everyone on the field and throughout the building. And I think we needed that for that little run that we went on afterwards with this group.” – KJ Lewis on Isaiah Abraham’s crucial block in the second half
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